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INTELLECTUAL freedom is an essential condition of progressive human development. Throughout the ages, individual scientific workers have been forced to fight and to suffer in order that life and intellect may be preserved from the effects of unreasoning prejudice, stagnation and repression. To–day they feel compelled to proclaim their special responsibility in the struggle against any subjection which would lead to the betrayal of intellectual liberty.
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THE COMMONWEALTH OF SCIENCE. Nature 148, 393 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148393a0
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